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standby
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. 1 State of readiness without being immediately involved. 2 (context travel English) Waiting at the airport in the hope of getting a seat on a flight that is already booked out. 3 Something that is standard, well-tested, or frequently used. vb. (context proscribed neologism operations English) Wait briefly: (alternative spelling of stand by nocap=1 English)
WordNet
adj. ready for emergency use; "a standby generator"; "a standby crew"
n. something that can be relied on when needed
an actor able to replace a regular performer when required [syn: understudy]
Wikipedia
Standby may refer to:
- Standby (air travel), a list in which passengers may request to be placed on to request an earlier or more convenient flight.
- Standby (theater), an actor or performer who will appear in a particular role if the regular performer is not present
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Sleep mode (in electronics), also known as standby-mode—a mode in which electronic appliances are turned off but still under power and ready to activate on command
- Standby, (or ACPI S3) an ACPI mode of a computer
- Standby power energy consumed by an electronic device while it is turned off
- Standby, the term NASA uses in air-to-ground radio communications for expressing "please wait"
- Standby, a 2014 comedy romance movie.
On most modern airlines, flying standby occurs when a passenger travels on a flight without a prior reservation for that specific flight. There are two circumstances in which passengers typically fly standby. First, a missed flight may require a passenger to fly standby on the next flight to the same destination, as they now lack a reservation. Secondly, a passenger may arrive at the airport early (whether accidentally or on purpose) and wish to take an earlier flight listed for that day. They will then attempt to travel standby on the earlier flight, and failing that, proceed to take their booked flight. This is referred to in the industry as "go-show".
Standby can also occur for upgrades. Many airlines (particularly in the United States) give free space available domestic upgrades to First Class for their elite tier fliers. If first class sells out or upgrades full with higher-tiered passengers, elite fliers can standby for a first class seat, should one open up due to a cancellation, no-show, misconnect, irregular operations or an equipment change. If a passenger clears for an upgrade, they may be given new boarding passes at the gate. Some airlines, such as American and United, have gateside monitors that show the upgrade (as well as general) standby list, and will also announce when First Class checks in full (i.e., no further upgrades will be given).
Standby is a 2012 South Korean sitcom that aired on MBC from April 9 to October 5, 2012 on Mondays to Fridays at 19:45. It is about the everyday stories of producers, writers and announcers working at TV11, a fictional broadcasting company.
Usage examples of "standby".
Pacific in combat platoons or on standby to replace dogs in combat platoons.
California dishes, cooked Italian-style, a daily oven-roasted pizza special, lots of pastas, and tried-and-true standbys like short ribs, fritto misto, and whole roasted fish.
In that time, Lieutenant Hepplewhite had been informed and had alerted the men downstairs on standby, who were playing poker as it happened, though nobody had had a full house all night.
Uhura sat at her station, keeping the channels between the Enterprise and the city of New Ibadan open and on standby.
Roy, with a lightheartedness as ominous as the noise of the standby burners.
Some fibrous lumps of sea-potato, that ever-ready standby of the poor.
Solitude to bring the Rings of the wormhole transit loop up to standby power, getting them ready, linking them one to another.
We lease and sublease multi kinds of timemakeshift, standby, conceptual et al forth.
Nevertheless, when the cloning party had filed into the OR, it was Mustafa and his cluttering fellows who had been relegated to the sidelines along with the circulating nurses and standby technicians, while Hamid-Jones had been assigned to stand with ig-Gabal in the place of honor at the surgical interface, though there was nothing, really, for him to do.
An old standby is to sprinkle cornmeal around the plants, which will bloat cutworms to death if they eat it.
It was true that such institutions usually had standby generators of their own, but these carried only a partial load and outside power was essential for normal functioning.
I was, stronger and quicker in the standby queue, with heftier bribes more heftily offered.
And, strangely enough, leopards were the standby of the Sapadi Lodge-a secret that not even the shrewdest leopard had ever learned.
Standby is a low-energy setting, which is typical when a satellite is in darkness and not recharging, but this one is in the sun.
She checked the toolkits and the standbys already displayed on the screen, and touched keys to have the system warn her when it was time to go home.